How can people make their games look the same on all phones?

[Mertt0a]

I’m making a vertical parkour game. When I open the game on a thin and long phone, the block I put in the right or left corner is not fully visible. How can I handle this?

[Kurt-Dekker]

Lots of different parts:

3D stuff: camera FOV matching
2D stuff: camera orthoSize matching
UI stuff: anchoring and scaling. See below.

It’s always best to deal with it up front.

Here are the official docs on how to make your UI handle various resolutions and aspect ratios cleanly:

Unity - Manual: Designing UI for Multiple Resolutions

Here are some notes on UI Anchoring, Scaling, CanvasScaler, etc:

Inconsistent game object placement/size between two people

It can be very fiddly but it is super-powerful once you reach comfort with the UI. Building upon Praetor’s great post above, let me suggest this approach: make a quick first draft of your UI. in the Unity game window change the shape / dimensions of your Game window (you can even make your own resolutions) see what happens to your UI in this new shape window iterate and fix your anchors and scalings and whatnot Make sure you do not overlook the Canvas Scaler settings. Personally I (almost) …

SOLVED: Game UI Button Size problem

That seems excessive… What is the text of the actual complaint from them? Make something like this with a fixed aspect ratio (in this case 2:1, maybe you need 3:1 or whatever suits your buttons), and ALL your buttons anchored inside it to never move within that box: [7337383--891847--fixed_aspect_ratio_box.png] then anchor that fixed against the bottom center (red dot below). On the ipad it looks like: [7337383--891850--ipad.png] on the iPhone it looks like: [7337383--891853--iphonex.pn…

Usually you need to choose a suitable ScaleMode and MatchMode in the Canvas Scaler and stick with it 100%. Generally if you change those settings you will often need to redo your UI entirely.

I also use this CanvasScalerOrientationDriver utility to make sharing UI for Landscape / Portrait easier. Read what it does carefully.

https://gist.github.com/kurtdekker/8802b1b6c708637398f8c9167641efd3

[Mertt0a]

Thank you!!! So, is it possible to display the camera the same way on every phone?

[Kurt-Dekker]

@Mertt0a

So, is it possible to display the camera the same way on every phone?

No, because phones are different shapes and resolutions. This is nothing unique to phones: computers are even worse because sometimes they have multiple different-sized monitors.

With the tools above and proper design and implementation you can make your app fully operational on any phone.